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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around what time of day does the man commit suicide in the narrator’s father’s car?
(a) Dawn.
(b) 2 a.m.
(c) 3 a.m.
(d) Midnight.

2. What color dress is Lettie wearing in Chapter 3?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Pink.

3. In Chapter 2, what color is the washbasin in the narrator’s room?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Beige.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

4. What does the narrator read before he goes to sleep in Chapter 5?
(a) A Secret Seven mystery.
(b) A Hardy Boys mystery.
(c) An Encyclopedia Brown book.
(d) The Boxcar Children.

5. What is on the birthday cake for the narrator’s seventh birthday?
(a) A football.
(b) A book.
(c) A wizard.
(d) A spaceship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ellen Henderson live?

2. In Chapter 7, what flowers can the narrator see as he watches his father and Ursula walk around the gardens?

3. How high does the narrator count until he tries to pull the worm out of his foot?

4. In the Prologue, how long has it been since the narrator’s marriage failed?

5. What color is the sky when the narrator thinks they’ve crossed the boundaries of the Hempstock farm in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator describe having cut out of his knee with a penknife in Chapter 5? What did he learn?

2. How does the narrator describe Ursula when she first arrives?

3. Where does the narrator go while the police deal with the narrator’s father’s car and its contents in Chapter 2?

4. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?

5. How does Lettie find the way to the creature to bind it in Chapter 4?

6. Where does the narrator like to read on nice spring days?

7. From whom does the narrator receive a letter in Chapter 3? What is revealed in the letter?

8. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

9. How does the narrator get rid of the worm after removing it from his foot?

10. What items lead Lettie to the creature in Chapter 4?

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